TIWN Feb 27, 2018
AGARTALA, Feb 27 (TIWN): Sorting, managing and exchanging of postal ballots of service voters have started across Tripura. Today the ballot papers from various constituencies were brought by the ROs in Agartala and then after sorting out were exchanged among them and also sent to each constituency. Talking to TIWN, Add Chief Electoral Officer Debashis Modok said, "Today the sorting out of ballot papers to be completed and ROs will hand-over the ballot papers with each-other. Today all the postal ballots were brought from various constituencies in Agartala by the ROs and by today the postal ballots will be given to the ROs for their own constituencies". The whole process were video recorded.
In this election there are 6700 service voters including Charilam constituency’s 115 service voters. As Charilam election was postponed thus the service voters of the 59 constituencies stands 6585 in total.
There are 20 locations chosen for the counting whereas counting halls are 59. The counting will be conducted in Sectors with 20 locations. Among the 20 sectors for West Tripura at Umakanta Academy the voting counting halls to be set. At Sepahijala Dist we have 2 counting halls : One is Sonamura another is Bishalgarh and 3rd one is Jampui Jala. 3 counting centres will be at Gomati : One is at Udaipur, another is at Amarpur and the 3rd is at Korbook.
3 counting centres at South Tripura are Belonia, Santir Bazar, Sabroom.
At North Tripura we have 3 counting centres : Panisagara, Kanchanpur, Dharmanagar and in Uankoti the counting centres are Kailashahar, Kumarghat.
In Khowai Dist the counting centres are Khowai, Teliamura. In Dhalai Dist the counting centres are : Kamalpur, Ambassa. Apart from that Jirania and Gandachara will have counting centres.
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